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Supervene upon

verb
1.
Take the place or move into the position of.  Synonyms: replace, supercede, supersede, supplant.  "The computer has supplanted the slide rule" , "Mary replaced Susan as the team's captain and the highest-ranked player in the school"





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"Supervene upon" Quotes from Famous Books



... fear that he may sink back into a lethargy. The extreme excitability, which circumstances have imparted to his moral system, has its dangers and its advantages; it being one of the dangers, that an obdurate scar may supervene upon its very tenderness. Solitude has done what it could for him; now, for a while, let him be enticed into the ...
— The Marble Faun, Volume II. - The Romance of Monte Beni • Nathaniel Hawthorne


Words linked to "Supervene upon" :   follow, succeed, preempt, deputize, supercede, step in, oust, deputise, put back, substitute, displace, come after, usurp


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